Tax-Exempts Up $457M, Taxables Down $70M

AUTHOR(S)

Briggs, Amanda

PUB. DATE

May 2004

SOURCE

Bond Buyer;5/21/2004, Vol. 348 Issue 31889, p36

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that tax-exempt money market funds experienced an inflow of $456.8 million as the weekly asset totaled $297.57 billion in the U.S. for the period ended May 17, 2004, according to IMoneyNet Inc.

ACCESSION #

13194880

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